Stumbling Stones Floraliastraat 3

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Eleazar Haagens, born 1888, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Jansje Haagens-Boekbinder, born 1888, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Salomon Haagens, born 1919, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1943, Auschwitz.

Eleazar Haagens was a butcher (Vleeschhouwer) and warehouse manager (Magazijnmeester).

He and Jansje Boekbinder married in 1915 and had 3 children. None survived the war. Their son Salomon (above) and his bride Marianne Bertha Haagens-Diependaal were married on 10 October 1942 but were deported separately and killed at Auschwitz; her stolperstein is at Floraliastraat 65 with her parents . Clara Haagens (born 1916) and her husband Nathan Andriesse were both killed in January 1944 at Auschwitz. Jeane Haagens (born 1921) was killed in Auschwitz in September 1942.

Six of Eleazar’s 8 siblings were killed in the war. Adriana Hartogs-Haagens (born 1885, killed 1943 in Arnhem; Bernard (born 1887, killed 1943 in Sobibor); David (born 1892, killed 1942 in Central Europe); Lion (born 1895, killed 1942 in Auschwitz); Henri (born 1900, killed 1943 in Sobibor); Samuel (born 1902, killed 1943 in Arnhem. Bertha Catharina (born 22oct 1890) survived in Holland. Information is unknown for Celina Henriette Haagens (born 1897).

Two of Jansje’s siblings were killed in the Holocaust: Levie Boekbinder (1891 – 1942 in Auschwitz) and Meier Boekbinder (1893 – 1943 in Seibersdorf labor camp, Austria). Information on her brother Aron Wolf Boekbinder (1887 - ??) is unknown. Another brother survived: Salomon Boekbinder (1890 Rotterdam -1965 Rotterdam).

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries.
It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into.
The Stolperstein gets a place in the pavement in front of the former house of the victim.
By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives a private memorial to each victim.
His motto is: 'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed.
This happened the 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder